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Medal News

Far too fussy WORD, it seems, has got out about my new theme and I was recently offered a pair of memorial plaques to brothers from Exeter. Whilst they were not cheap (what is these days?), the price wasn’t unreasonable, but I turned them down, ostensibly because they were from the “wrong side...

In order to keep the MEDAL YEARBOOK at a reasonable price this year we took out cumulative index to MEDAL NEWS magazine from the standard version (it's still in the deluxe). It is now available from our shop as a separate digital download and, if you're a subscriber to the magazine you can get...

We will remember PERSONAL remembrance is easy—we will never forget John, his photographs are everywhere, his presence and influence touched many lives and those who knew him will carry his memory for years to come. For the vast majority of us, collective remembrance is a different thing. When we...

John William Mussell 1942–2023

A lasting legacy, unchanged TOKEN Publishing Ltd has been around for 40 years now, and at the helm throughout those four decades has been John Mussell, Managing Editor first of COIN & MEDAL NEWS (from 1983–89) then of two separate magazines (COIN NEWS and MEDAL NEWS) from 1989 onwards. In addition...

Local knowledge AS some of you may know, after my Chaplains collection was sold I struggled for some time to find a decent “theme” to base my collecting on; after a while I settled for two themes, both tried and tested ones—surname and town. Very simple, very straightforward, I’m collecting any...